Mohamed Belkaid

Mohamed Belkaid (1981-15 March 2016) was an Islamic State sympathizer from Sweden who was killed in the 2016 police raids in Brussels.

Biography
Mohamed Belkaid was born in Algeria in 1981, and he later immigrated to and lived for several years in Sweden. He married a Swedish woman fifteen years his senior, and he was sent to prison four times for petty crimes. In 2014, he travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State during the Syrian Civil War, and he became an associate of Salah Abdeslam, a fellow European jihadist. He became a member of the same Brussels-based terror cell upon his return from Syria, residing in a house in the Forest suburb of Brussels. On 15 March 2016, the police launched a raid on the house in an attempt to locate Abdeslam (who had become a fugitive following the November 2015 Paris attacks), and he was shot and killed by a police sniper.